Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:57:30 -0800


: At the risk of triggering an emotional response in L.McVoy, I'll point
: out that we've been though this already. Sun has been working behind
: the scenes to help the development of UltraPenguin. They provided
: access to hardware and information.
:
: I agree that the message was a little ambiguous: it wasn't clear
: whether their support was "new" (i.e. supporting future developments
: in UltraPenguin) or "existing" (i.e. supported the original work in
: UltraPenguin). From various responses, I gather their support was
: "existing" and is ongoing.
:
: Regards,
:
: Richard....

No emotional response, just an observation that Mr Gooch's comments are
based on publicly available information posted on this list. As such, he
has no idea of who/what/why is going inside of Sun with respect to Linux.
So his postings, on this topic at least, (a) add absolutely nothing to
what has already been discussed here, and (b) leave people with the false
impression that he actually knows something about this topic. I'm at a
loss as to why he constantly feels compelled to answer questions when he
doesn't have the answer, but, hey, it's a free country, er, mailing list.

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